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Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon

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On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 23:27:58 +0100
Andrew Owen <aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 02/06/2014 18:52, greenaum wrote:
> > Sure he's thrilled.
> 
> If they're going to pardon him they should pardon everyone inlcuding 
> those still alive with a criminal record. Which is precisely why they 
> didn't previously pardon him. It would cost money to process all
> those convictions.

Kind of, yes.

There was an interview with one of the guys who campaigned to get his
conviction overturned back in January's Linux Format, who said that you
won't actually find anyone in Turing's family supporting a pardon.

The reason being that as a result of their campaign, *anyone* can have a
conviction under the pre-1968 Gross Indecency law erased from the
record, on demand. It's not a formal Pardon, but the criminal record is
cleared, and everyone is treated equally. But piecemeal campaigns for
formal Royal Pardons put famous people, people with a big enough
following to mount such a campaign, above everyone else: Turing can get
a Pardon, so can Oscar Wilde, but your uncle who never married (and
there was all that nasty business with the chap in Brighton), he can't.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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Alan Turing receives Royal pardon Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2013-12-23 18:45 -0800
  Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2013-12-24 14:58 +0000
  Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon greenaum@gmail.com (greenaum) - 2014-06-02 17:52 +0000
    Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon Andrew Owen <aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk> - 2014-06-02 23:27 +0100
      Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2014-06-03 19:18 +0100
        Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon greenaum@gmail.com (greenaum) - 2014-06-08 21:32 +0000
          Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon Guesser <alistair@alistairsserver.no-ip.org> - 2014-06-08 22:40 +0100
          Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetelo@ask.me> - 2014-06-09 07:33 +0200
    Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 08:07 +0100
      Re: Alan Turing receives Royal pardon greenaum@gmail.com (greenaum) - 2014-06-08 21:23 +0000
  Alan Turing receives Royal pardon Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 11:16 -0700

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